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Coast

Coast 1

A history of the New South Wales Edge

by Ian Hoskins
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/11/2013
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From Eden to Byron Bay, the New South Wales coast is more than 2000 kilometres long, with 130 estuaries, 100 coastal lakes, and a rich history.

This, the first history written of the New South Wales coast, traces our relationship with this stretch of land and sea starting millennia ago when Aboriginal people feasted on shellfish and perfected the art of building bark canoes, to our present obsession with the beach as a place to live or holiday.

Leading us through the European fascination with marine life, the attempts to establish a whaling industry, the fear of seaborne invasion which led to the creation of a navy of our own in 1911, through to the rise of our unstoppable enthusiasm for surfing and fishing, Ian Hoskins argues that our current enthrallment with the coast began more recently than we might think.

ISBN:
9781742232706
9781742232706
Category:
Australasian & Pacific history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-11-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
NewSouth Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
448
Dimensions (mm):
230x190mm
Weight:
1.4kg
Ian Hoskins

Ian Hoskins has worked as an academic and public historian in Sydney for thirty years. He won the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Literary Prize for History and the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Regional and Community History in 2015.

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I am one of those people who rarely reads non fiction because so much of it is so poorly written. But this is a beautifully written book which weaves a story of the places, people and natural forces that shaped the NSW Coast. It is full of lovely images and maps. A great gift for someone who loves the coast, who loves history, or who enjoys a story well told.

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